Scarpaleggia seeks to keep Dorval in one riding

By Kevin Woodhouse, October 24th, 2012

Lac St. Louis MP Francis Scarpaleggia recently spoke in front of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission to request that the city of Dorval remain as one electoral riding and not have parts put into three that the commission proposed this past July while the borough of Lachine recently passed a resolution to maintain the borough in one federal riding for all residents.
The new electoral borders will now divide parts of Dorval into three ridings with the southern portion below highway 20, remaining as part of the Lac St. Louis riding with the rest of Dorval becoming part of the John Peters-Humphrey riding which will include the airport and the northern part of Dorval north of highway 40 would join the new MacDonald-Langstaff riding.
Scarpaleggia noted via a press release that the city of Dorval "is an historic and highly integrated Lakeshore community from many points of view that boasts its own drinking water production plant as well as Soccer Association, Artisans' Guild, and many other recreational activities and cultural programs that bring residents, young and older, together.  Moreover, in 2004, in an expression of unified community spirit, Dorval citizens united to regain their city's municipal status, along with the other like-minded municipalities in Lac Saint Louis.”
 The city supports the notion, having passed a resolution in August requesting that Lachine be included in a single riding, a motion that was backed by Marquette MNA Francois Ouimet.
The Lachine resolution mentioned that placing the residents of Saint Pierre into the Wilder-Penfield riding would have a negative impact on the riding and noted that keeping all citizens in one riding would not surpass federal riding limits in lieu of dividing the borough up into Wilder-Penfield and Lachine-LaSalle.n